Posts: 9

Topic: Language Poll

Because there has been a long topic about whether or not we should only use English to communicate, I have created this poll. The poll will run for two weeks, at the end of which we should decide what to do.

Re: Language Poll

Yes, the clear outcome is: Continue to do exactly what we've been doing all along, which is what any reasonable and tolerant community would do. If I had had any expectation that people's opinions were out of alignment with that, then I would have countermanded them using whatever executive fiat I still retain.

Re: Language Poll

I intended to get a vote on whether or not we can say that people have to speak only English. And I got what was intended. The poll's already closed (for some reason), so this thread might as well be closed now as well.

Re: Language Poll

To maybe give some clarification on what I think rlk's angle here is, sometimes a simple poll isn't the best way to derive consensus. Polls themselves don't let people explore ideas that didn't occur to them in the way that discussion does (and we already had discussion going elsewhere).

Things that look like voting can be confrontational - they look like decision making tools and can put pressure on topics where pressure isn't what's needed.